According to him, European countries failed to create a common immigration policy that would meet the economic and demographic requirements of the time.

“We are going through a demographic winter,” Borrell is quoted by TASS.

He also pointed to the need to develop the human potential of Europe, which at the moment is not provided by European demography.

Earlier, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said that Europe should prepare to receive a new wave of refugees from Ukraine.